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I find the above comments about the stedt in surname interesting. My surname is lagerstedt. That would mean two words if split into two IE Lager stedt. What does each mean and where did it originally come from. Regards Blair Lagerstedt
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Lager is camp (English lair). In context this is an army camp, set up by a force of any size. This is a fairly common toponym in central and Eastern Europe (e.g. Kozachi Laheri in Kherson oblast).
Stedt is an archaic Swedish cognate of stead, stadt. The rudimentary meaning is simply place, base. Aside from compounds like instead, bedstead, homestead, farmstead, it's common in settlement names such as Hampstead, Ingolstadt etc.
Stedt is an archaic Swedish cognate of stead, stadt. The rudimentary meaning is simply place, base. Aside from compounds like instead, bedstead, homestead, farmstead, it's common in settlement names such as Hampstead, Ingolstadt etc.
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This name comes from Swedish, so the first element may rather come from Swedish 'lager' which means "laurel (tree)".
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Except the laurel doesn't grow in Sweden. It's Mediterranean. Aside from camp, the other meaning in Swedish, borrowed from German, is storehouse (where things rather than people are laid down). Even if a developer wanted to imply there were laurels, I don't think a lot of people would think of that.
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